CLEMENTINES: While clementines are similar to mandarins, they have fewer calories and much more Vitamin C.The first clementines were grown in the United States at the Citrus Research Center in 1909 and were finally commercially grown in California in 1914.

Clementines can keep furniture predators away - if your cats are chewing the house plants, leave some clementine peels by the leaves!

Students who need to take the late bus must register for it before 12:00 noon - there is no late bus on Fridays.

Please contact Alisha Sawyer with any questions or for more information. asawyer@maplerun.org.

BAND

Full Orchestra and the beginning strings did a great job last night in our concert. Thank you very much from Mr. Mehaffey.

There are no after school cello lessons today, and Sr. Orchestra is not rehearsing.Mr. Mehaffey will be finding solo students during the day, to work on with their solo's for next week.

Lionel has a lesson at 8 and Kianna has a lesson at 10:30 today.

Jazz Band will be rehearsing tomorrow, Friday, at 2.

EVENTS OR NOTICES

8th GRADE PARENT NIGHT (at SACS) WITH BFA AND NWTC

Who: 8th Graders and their Families

When: Thursday, January 25th from 6-7pm

Where: St. Albans City School Library

Why: Dr. Preston Randall, Director of Guidance at BFA, will be here to discuss the transition from 8th to 9th grade. He will pass out and go over the paperwork necessary for the transition and answer your questions about BFA and NWTC.

If you can't make it... No fear! We will pass out paperwork and answer any remaining questions in your community.

We have a very short deadline to create a cover. If you have a good cover idea please submit your offer to Mr. Craib and the yearbook committee by Friday, January 6th. mcraib@maplerun.org

Design Criteria:

Put your name on the back of the artwork (if drawn on paper)

Your artwork can be created on paper or be digital

The artwork must say... Oh, the places we've been! -on the front

The artwork must say... Oh, the places we’ll go! - on the back

No Anime

You can submit artwork for the front, back, or both

Has to have color

PICTURES AND REPORTS

DISCOVERY

Team Discovery was photographed on Tuesday morning (1-23-2018) while engaged in math, writing, reading and research. LINK TO 56 PICTURES

COMPOST

This is a picture of the cafeteria compost bin from Wednesday's lunch. What can we students and staff do to avoid contamination of our food waste like this? Would you mind discussing this in your classrooms?

NAVIGATORS

Mrs. Adams kids working with their new steam toy, a 116 piece marble track!

KINDERGARTEN: OWL VISIT

Three owls were brought to St. Albans City School to further our kindergarteners natural science education. All three owls had been hit by cars, probably when flying low across a road at night in search of pray. None will be able to fly normally again and are now traveling around to schools for educational purposes. Only their handler was allowed to hold and touch these remarkable birds. Students could get close to the owls and had a lot of questions for the handler. LINK TO 46 PICTURES